Migrant Education Regional Offices

NOTE: The application due date for this program has passed.

Funding Description

The Migrant Education regional offices, in coordination with the California Department of Education Migrant, Indian, International Education Office Office (CDE/MIIEO), provide program support to school districts to meet the unique needs of migrant students and their families. The funding is coordinated by the migrant education regional offices in the development of District Service Agreements (DSA) to be submitted by regional offices to CDE/MIIEO for approval.

Eligibility

Eligible Applicants

Local educational agencies

Required Eligibility Criteria

Funds must be used to serve a migrant student who performs, or has a parent, spouse, or guardian who performs, qualifying agricultural or fishing employment as a principal means of livelihood and has moved within the preceding 36 months to obtain temporary or seasonal employment in agricultural or fishing work. Migrant education services are provided to students, ages three through twenty-one, who move from one local educational agency to another.

Other Eligibility Considerations

Recipients must maintain an ongoing and functional migrant parent advisory council comprised of members who are knowledgeable of the needs of the migrant children. Two-thirds of the members of the parent advisory council must be the parents of eligible migrant children. Recipients must coordinate migrant services with the regional offices.